Jerimalai (Pleistocene of East Timor)

Where: East Timor (8.4° S, 127.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 127.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Primary reference: H. J. M. Meijer, J. Louys, and S. O'Connor. 2009. First record of avian extinctions from the Late Pleistocene and Holocene of Timor Leste. Quaternary Science Reviews 203:170-184 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204406: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Haliaeetus leucogaster Gmelin 1788 white-bellied sea-eagle
 Gruiformes - Gruidae
Grus sp. Brisson 1760 crane
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
cf. Ninox sp. Hodgson 1837 true owl
 Strigiformes - Tytonidae
cf. Tyto sp. Billberg 1828 barn owl
 Cuculiformes - Cuculidae
Cuculidae indet. Leach 1820 cuckoo
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columbidae indet. Illiger 1811 dove
Macropygia sp. Swainson 1837 dove
Ptilinopus sp. Swainson 1825 fruit dove
Columba vitiensis Quoy and Gaimard 1830 metallic pigeon
cf. Ducula sp. Hodgson 1836 imperial pigeon
or Caloenas
cf. Treron sp. Vieillot 1816 dove
Geopelia sp. Swainson 1837 dove
 Charadriiformes -
Charadriiformes indet. Huxley 1867 shorebird
 Charadriiformes - Turnicidae
Turnix maculosus Temminck 1815 red-backed buttonquail
Reptilia
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Synoicus chinensis Linnaeus 1766 blue-breasted quail
Synoicus ypsilophorus Bosc 1793 brown quail